Every women has a story to write, a real, dripping heart felt, honest story. The threads of it is hinted at on message chats, it oozes through your processes, runnings like sweat from your knee caps... your daughters are aching to read it... your grandchildren, laying, cords unbroken need to hear it so they can come through to this world. You have a job to do... you have many jobs to do... one of them is to live your full , beating, bleeding, real, authentic life... and the next is to write it... to life.

I was listening to Druidic wisdom yesterday, part of the way they stay exclusive to society is that they memorises their stories and traditions in poetry then told it to each other... they wrote almost nothing down... the whispers of their magic and way of life are here only becuase a few brave people witnessed them, watched them and, eyes unclouded told what they saw...

The scarcest thing about writing is that it is an act of Alchemy and it changes the morphogenetic felid, a field in urgent need of transformation and healing, your words: no matter how wobbly, tired, crumbly or ecstatically alive are medicine for that field... Writing also changes you. Each thing I have written I have walked away as a different woman...

For centries women have been denied access to learning how to write, because of this. The silence of women's voices in literature is stark .. a loud screaming silencing... I was there when some of you crossed that line.. out of the silencing.. it was not quiet.. you were not silent... it was loud, real vital... that is the voice that needs to be written now.

Take space, write in volume, write great tombstones of books, leave them like stepping stones behind you. Write your colorful real story in the way only you can write it. Then write it again and again and again until the crickets go silent in the hot midnight air.... the women are waiting for you...

I holdspace for your story because I made a promise to and I am oh so scared... i was burned once for being the Witch that wrote... This life time I burn up from the inside if I do not write: Join me and other brave writers.

Millicent Haughey - millicenthaughey.com